Joe Rogan | Ric Flair is Important to America w/Everlast

I don't know what the woo thing is that's happened in the last couple years. Woo! Like it's just like the whole crowd starts... It's like... They just get excited. But that's new. That wasn't around a long time ago. It's probably some soccer thing. They probably stole it from soccer. Woo! It's like animals answering each other. It's like you got... Right? You're communicating with the woo's. Dude, I never even thought of that. That's so true. The woo. That's a new thing. Yeah. I mean the last few years... Like over the last five or six years, right? Was that a wrestling thing? You know what? When's the first time it popped up down south like a Kentucky or a North Carolina? That's when I feel like I heard it first. You know, that might be Ric Flair. That might be a Ric Flair. Might be a Ric Flair? Is that what that is? Woo! Dude, that would make a lot... Now you fucking solved a mystery for me. That would make sense if we can get some confirmation on that somehow. Someone asked this question on Reddit. Someone says you've been talking about Ric Flair so much that they might have picked it up from you. Oh, Jesus Christ. I don't know if that read it, but... What if this is some bizarro moment where it all connected? Like, oh shit, I started that. Listen, guys like that are important to America. The guy's such... He's such a character. In his prime, with his suits... Jet flying, alligator wearing... I was a WCW guy, man, and Ric Flair was the man. Dude, he was a... He's a character that made his way into... What, a thousand rap songs? How many rap songs have Ric Flair? Dude, there's a whole hip-hop subculture involved with wrestling. I mean, there's these cats that I'm actually fans of, West Side Gun and Conway and this kid, Benny. They got this record label called Griselda, but the West Side Gun kid is like a fucking wrestling fanatic. I think he's involved with the WWE, doing merch and stuff like that, because I see him putting shit together that's definitely got to be licensed. But, yo, there's this whole subculture of wrestling and hip-hop going on right now, too. Wrestling has definitely made its way into stand-up, too, now. They have this podcast, The Store Horseman, where they all just talk about pro wrestling, a bunch of comics. Tony Hinchcliffe and these comics. Who's on that store, Horseman? Jeremiah Watkins, right? Who else? No, he's not. I'm giving out fake news. Fake news. That's fake news. But... What's not fake news is this is delicious, by the way. It's very good. It's delicious. Buffalo Trace. I ain't mad at it. This company's from 1773, son. They started in 1773. I like it. It's really tasty. Did you know that they sold whiskey during prohibition for medicinal purposes? Oh, they did. I didn't know that. Oh, I didn't, but I'm not shocked at all. So this company kept making whiskey all through the prohibition. Legally, you're saying? Legally, yeah. For medicine. So people that, you know, need a little medicine. I just got a slew of new whiskeys for the birthday. Okay, here it is. It's Tony Hinchcliffe, Johnny Skirtis, Matt Edgar, Josh Martin. That's right. I hope I said Skirtis's last name right. Is that right? Is that how you say it? It sounds like it. Yeah. Anyway, so comics are really into pro wrestling too. They even go live, these dorks, they fly out to like WrestleMania and they go in the audience. Same. Yeah, same thing. Yeah. Yeah. It's become like a pit, not like a, it's become a thing that people like to do, like to go to these big wrestling events and groups of people, whether it's musicians or rappers, hip hop or standups, they're going like for sure, experiencing it together. Exactly. It's like the concert experience. Why are rappers so obsessed with Ric Flair? Because he's got like 40 Rolexes. Because, you know, he's Ric Flair. That one famous rant that he went on, limousine riding, jet flying. Yeah, exactly. You know? Yeah, that kind of shit. And they were all eight when that happened. Yeah, and they saw that. Yeah, see that's everything I want in the universe. Yeah, you see him now. I mean, the guy still gets love everywhere he goes. You know, like I did in my special where I said, you know, Ric Flair, and then I put the microphone out to the audience. The audience goes, whoa, like, dude, you started that shit then, dude, you started the woo. I don't think I did. I don't think I did. I think it was already going on. I think everybody appreciates this guy. It's like, as you get up, we can't play this, right? We're getting trouble. But this is the, as you, you know, you get older, you, you see things like this, you appreciate them for what they look, you could think they're cheesy when you're young, but then as you get older, you go, no, that's fucking awesome. The fact that that guy is this tank with this beautiful golden mullet with those crazy sunglasses saying all this nutty shit. The old pinky ring. Dude, man, that's an artist. That guy's an artist. Look at that. That's the male soap opera forever since back when they were children, man. Yeah. You know what I mean? When I was a kid, it was Bob Backlund and Jimmy Superfly Snooka and Iron Cheek. I don't know if you could have really grown up in America as a little boy and not had a phase at some point where you interacted with one of these wrestling organizations, WCW or WWF when I was growing up. And if you were like one of those kids that's really into like alt music and indie groups, you know, you, you would go for some like fucking killer Kowalski shit. You would go, you would go, you would try to find some people that were off the beaten path. Like, do you know about this wrestling organization? Because there's a bunch of like weird little tiny. Dude, when I was when the house of pain like was like early on, like, you know, but we were experiencing pretty good success. Like ECW had formed the crazy extreme championship wrestling. I think that's what it's so for out of Philadelphia. And they invited us to a bunch. And it was the first time I ever really, and I know it had happened before, but their whole show was about cats cutting their faces open and bleeding during matches and shit. It was insanity, man. And they had packed houses. I mean, I think dude bought it up like Vince McMahon bought it up and the guy who owned it or ran it became one of the like characters within it. I believe I've spent a long time. I'm old now. I'm 50.